Hello everyone!

These last weeks have been incredible!

Thank you so much everyone for your support!

Not only have we redesigned the whole website  (I hope you love the new look and feel!), but if you have been reading the blog you may have also noticed that during the last weeks we also had the VIP Pre-Release (we invited only those that had left comments on our blog).

The results have been incredible and people from USA, Canada, Australia , Singapore, Spain, Colombia, Uruguay, and even the United Arab Emirates have joined us!

The feedback we have been getting from our first students makes e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g—all these years, all the effort, all the time spent—worthwhile.

Thanks—REALLY thanks—everyone for your support! This is really a dream come true for us, especially because of the feedback we have received from our students.

I do not know any of our students personally; however, I was fortunate enough to meet most of our students through email and through our piano community. I wanted to share with you some of the comments we have received. Thank you Ana, Oscar, and Franc for your permission to post these comments!:

"HI Rod,
This is the best product I have seen online. You have taken music making to a whole new level never done before online. I strongly recommend this product to everyone who has just begun learning or has been learning for a few years. They will suddenly begin to understand what they are playing.
Congrats Rod to yourself and your team.

Oscar Dsouza”

Oscar shared with me that he was a beginner piano student from Dubai and that to make his piano learning faster he had bought many online piano courses from different sources in the past. Therefore, I was especially delighted to read his comment. Thank you Oscar!

"I just opened the door, many more friends will enter, I'm amazed about how easy is the software I received and also I liked colors and design very straight to the point and not boring at all !!!

Believe-me I know a lot of other ideas for piano online learning and I risked some money on dozens of ideas, but I can make you sure that now I’m feeling on the top wave!

Franc Bruno"

I received that comment from Franc a few days after he bought the course. Several weeks later I contacted him again and asked him if I could post his comment on our site. To my pleasant surprise, he answered:

“Rod

You can use my testimonial. It's my pleasure.

And I add that the track you used to open the book is amazing, very calm and relaxing inviting the student to seat and play.

I'm amazed about the content and quality of logic behind music.

I can say that for the first time in years buying learning software I'm 100% satisfied with my investment.

Thank you
you can use also this comment. “

Thank you Franc!!!

I also had the fortune of meeting another of our students: Ana. She first got my attention when months ago I read the comment she had posted on our blog, about our Music Fundamentals eBook. There, she mentioned that her own mother was a piano teacher:

“Just finished first lesson. My mother (who is a piano teacher) wasn’t able to teach me this much in past oh, god knows how many years with her conventional approach (sorry, Mom). I’ll definitely show her this website. Can’t wait to start a second lesson. Thanks for doing this,guys

Ana Federenko”

A few weeks later, after our course was ready, we sent the invitations to only those who had posted comments on our blog, and of course she was included in the list. I sent her an email with the invitation to become part of the VIP Pre-Release, and she joined us and bought the course. I had the pleasure of meeting her. I was very intrigued by her personal story, and after I sent her a message, she kindly shared it with me:

"Hi Rod,

“My Mom has been a piano teacher for the past 30 or 35 years.

Unfortunately for me, she is an "old school." You know very well what I mean by that. So this combination never really worked since I, as a kid, was naturally opposed to any kind of meaningless memorization. My mom, God bless her, thought that I would do better with another teacher and another instrument. Well, that just doesn't work like that, does it. The underlying frustration was always there. However, my passion for music never died and luckily I found your course which gave me new hope.

“It's been couple of days now and I enjoy it immensely. I loved, for instance, how you offer to think in terms of intervals. I totally got it. It was a great feeling to discover a hidden (for me personally) gem like that. ... All I want to do now is practice on the piano and on my guitar, since I can apply my new knowledge there too.
”

When I read this comment, you cannot imagine how moved I was. I asked Ana´s permission and then showed the message to all of our team.

Then, about one week later, I was surprised to receive another comment from Ana on my profile wall at The Piano Encyclopedia´s Community (all students are able to meet other students and our team members on the community). There she wrote:

“Hi Rod,
I'm excited because I just made my very first short composition! It's sounded great! It was in C major. I can't wait to learn more. Thanks so much!”

You cannot imagine what a deep impact this short message had on me.

I had to struggle for many years with teachers who would only teach me how to memorize music pieces or read music sheet I had many years of frustration. There were years of only learning new pieces to then forget them, full of frustration, without any real progress. For me, it was not until after 10 years since I started piano that I was able to learn how to improvise or compose my own pieces. Ana had written me this comment just about a week after buying the course, so I was really moved and extremely happy for her.

In order to fully understand this, you have to understand that The Piano Encyclopedia was primarily born out of my own frustration, my own story. I spent nearly ten years quitting lessons, switching teachers and starting again and again, until I found a teacher who was able to teach me music in the right way. After this, I no longer had to spend months studying a single piece. I discovered how to play the piano with freedom, being able to sit on the piano and freely improvise, create my own music and express my own feelings, and not just how to play a specific piece. Then, I realized that I was not alone, that many pianists around the world were suffering from the same cause and that the majority had no clue about how to improvise or play the piano without depending on music sheet or memorization.

Reading all the students´ comments (I will be sharing more comments soon), made me realize that all the efforts we had invested during the last three years, that all the time that the more than fifty contributors have put in —musicians, pianists, writers, editors, graphics designers, and developers— and that all the time invested in this project was more than worthwhile.

It especially made me realize that changing the way people learn piano is possible.

This is why we call The Piano Encyclopedia “the revolution to the conventional piano learning method” — a method not based on rules or memorization— but on logic and understanding. It is a method for those who want to understand “the big picture” of how music works in a practical way and who want to learn how to play the piano with freedom.

After reading all the comments from our students, for me this is a dream come true, and it makes everything worthwhile giving us all the energy to strive for greater things. (For us it is an evolving project—we are already at version v1.3 and all our students are getting free updates!)

Again, thank you Ana, Franc, and Oscar for permitting me to share these comments!

TODAY, we are starting the Official Pre-Release and we will be sending special invitations to ALL of those who have subscribed to our newsletter, so you can be the first to enjoy our course and at a special Pre-Release price for members-only.

All those invited will receive a password that you will be able to use to enter the Pre-Release page and access our course before anyone else, at a special Pre-Release price for members-only that will be available for a limited time only. Also you will be able to watch the sneak-peek 6-minute video tour— before it even becomes public—that will show you some of the exciting features of The Logic Behind Music.

To enter the Exclusive Pre-Release page, go to the following link and enter the password provided in the invitation email:

Feel free to write me or leave a comment here and stay in touch!

I really look forward to getting to meet each of you!

Enjoy!

Rod Schejtman

Hi everyone!

It's been a while since we posted on the blog, as we have been writing constant short news updates in our chat room -but today, I am writing to you today to share some really exciting news!

These have been the best days of my life...

After almost three years of intense development with the help of more than fifty collaborators - which included pianists, writers, editors, graphic designers, and developers from different corners of the world - I'm proud to announce that our Digital Home-Study Course: "The Logic Behind Music" is finally ready and looking truly amazing. My team and I have taken the lessons, the animations, the graphics, and the presentation to perfection, paying great attention to detail. This course has really become everything we dreamed about!

With this course, the history of piano learning has changed forever.

THE PIANO LEARNING REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN!

Throughout history, revolutions have changed the way we think, live, and learn. The leaders of revolutions have long been applauded for their bravery and determination; for using their ideas to better the lives of everyone around them.

Today, my team and I are adding a new chapter to the book of music history by presenting our revolution to the conventional piano-learning method.

Our method is not based on rules, but on logic and understanding. We don't intend to teach prospective pianists to play without understanding the music. Opposite to the conventional piano-teaching methods, our techniques do not enslave the students with a set of complex rules that only a few can understand, and that only professional musicians are able to master after a lifetime of dedication to music.

Mastery of the art of music composition and improvisation will no longer be limited to the skillful and gifted musicians who are able to devote their entire life to music and piano learning. EVERYONE will be able to enjoy playing, improvising, and composing on the piano -and that's what this revolution is really about.

Let me give you a sneak peek into what our Digital Home Study Course "The Logic Behind Music" includes:

Here is what you will get with our Digital Home-Study Course:

• The Logic Behind Music's Main Lessons, with all of the music secrets that helped each of the musicians and pianists on our team reach a new level of music understanding.
• The Logic Behind Music's Four Piano Practice Booklets full of enriching exercises, so you can take all of the music concepts you are learning into practice with your piano or keyboard.
• The Logic Behind Music's Three Reference Books: Expand your knowledge with the Multimedia Books, master all of the fundamental Intervals, Chords and Scales, and gain access to hundreds of interactive Piano reference charts.
• A Gold-Membership Account in The Piano Encyclopedia's community, so that you can access Premium Exclusive Areas, ask questions, share your progress, parcipate in music contests, and interact with other musicians and pianists that are taking the same lessons as you.
• More than five hundred (500+) Pages of Unique Content
• More than two thousand (2000+) Interactive Animations
• Thousands of Piano Chord, Scale, and Interval Recordings
• Virtual Piano Keyboards and exclusive Piano Encyclopedia technology, so that you can follow the lessons and practice even if you are far away from your piano or keyboard.

The most common problem we've encountered is that most pianists are limited to just reading and playing music. That is, most pianists are just 'interpreters' and lack the necessary skills to be able to improvise or compose music. What we recognized is that it is not the students' fault... it's actually the way they're taught. Very few teachers know this, and very few private teachers actually teach this in a practical way.

In my case, I spent more than ten years without much real progress, other than learning more and more pieces, which I would then forget as the years passed. Then I was shown some simple but powerful concepts that changed everything for me, and nowadays I just sit at the piano and improvise or create my own music. This is something I thought was completely impossible... something that I considered out of my reach no matter how hard I practiced... and no teacher would teach.

We want to change this worldwide.

We want to eliminate this frustration for every piano player out there.

Eight months ago, we were (and still are) the first piano site on  the Internet to release an eBook of more than twenty pages for free. We released our 111-page Music Fundamentals eBook as a gift to the Piano community.

Today, that content has been enriched with interactive multimedia content and is now part of just the first chapters of our Digital Home-Study Course: "The Logic Behind Music." The report was a complete success, and the comments we have received far exceeded our expectations

These are just five out of more than fifty comments we received, taken directly from the messages:

"Hi Rod,

I just found your website a week ago and I can say that even though the report is free, it is the best 111 pages of music I have ever touched. I
could not believe that there exist such logic to music playing. Maybe
this is what differentiates average piano players and the exceptional ones.

I began to play piano again this past two months after 10 years of idling. I
practice for more than two hours each day, and after I read the report, the
music sheets suddenly become so much more clear than ever before.

I have a
dream of being able to play piano on stage, and with what’s coming, I don’t
think it is impossible anymore.",

Wilson Tjandra

“Hi Rod,

I’m currently reading your report and I must admit it is fantastic!
I’ve been studying piano for some years, giving up and starting again quite a lot of times. Your personal history is very similar to mine The project is a great idea and it will help a lot of people.

I’ve never found something similar in the internet!” ,

Desi

"Thank You! Thank You! as a retired engineer with no musical experience, you have made an apparent arbitrary system logical."

Bruce Woods

"
Just finished first lesson. My mother (who is a piano teacher) wasn’t able to teach me this much in past oh, god knows how many years with her conventional approach (sorry, Mom). I’ll definitely show her this website. Can’t wait to start a second lesson. Thanks for doing this, guys",

Ana

"Hello. I have looked on different websites to try and find something that would help me on chords, and this was the best and easiest approach. My husband and I go to church, where everyone has some type of music ability. I’ve never been cordinated or very consistant in anything I’ve tried to play.

This has helped me, along with prayer. I am very thankful to have found such a wonderful way of teaching, thank you very
much for that!"

Jennette

"Thanks to you and to the whole team for this amazing project that will help a lot of people to understand how music works!

Now I can say: "i'm understanding music!"

William Rivera

"This is with no doubt one
of the greatest piano learning material on the internet.",

cod3name47, Sweden (Youtube.com)

"Dear Rod

I thank you very much for this website, in my point of view I would say it will most likley contribute into the comeback and the revolution of the piano once again.

I thank you very much for this. This website will help so many people with there piano work and create a useful(unlike the others online) piano community which can discuss and help students/teachers with real piano issues! I am happy to finally see all the pianos needed information to be gathered in one single site and will be using this site and contributing to it
without doubt.

Sincerely,"

Ali Janahi

(You will find more than fifty amazing testimonials and reviews in our blog.)

Today, our Digital Home Study-Course "The Logic Behind Music" is finished, and we truly believe that with this course we´ll be changing how you learn on the piano.

After so much work and dedication, I can tell everyone that this is really a dream come true for us.

This couldn´t have been possible without all the people who contributed and believed that their vision of changing piano learning was possible, and dedicated their time and energy to work as a part of our team toward a common goal.

And most importantly, this wouldn´t have begun without the support of the internet piano community: people who visited our site, offered us their support by leaving a message or comment, and subscribed to our site which gave us the energy to make this dream come true.

For this reason, to thank all the followers of our site, we´ll be making all of our newsletter subscribers part of our special pre-release offer, which will allow them to access our Digital-Home Study Course at a special price before it's released to the public.

Since this course is now fully completed, we are now working on completely redesigning our site to honor all these years of development, and  preparing everything for the official launch date - which will be announced upon the end of the pre-release.

Exciting times have begun for The Piano Encyclopedia, and for all of the piano players around the world.

On behalf of our team, I truly thank you for supporting The Piano Encyclopedia and I am proud to be sharing this thrilling  news with all of our followers.

Enjoy!

Best wishes,

Rod Schejtman

P.S: If you are already subscribed, please know that all pre-releases will be occurring during the next few weeks (starting this week), giving priority to the followers who subscribed first.

If you haven´t subscribed yet, but don´t want to wait for the official release date and wish to get our Digital Home Study Course at a special price before anyone else, make sure you join our newsletter now. (Click here to join our newsletter)  We´ll consider you for our special pre-release price, depending on your subscription date.